I had some spare time this morning

Crazyraceguy

Member
Joined
Oct 16, 2015
Messages
5,019
I usually go to my workplace on Saturdays, not on the clock. This is the time where I work in personal projects, either my own or for someone else. Sometimes it's only a couple of hours, before my lunch meeting. The time I show up just depends on the size of the project or how motivated I am to do it. Today the meeting was cancelled, so I had a few hours to get something done, uninterrupted.
I decided to make a little cabinet/shelving unit, out of some scrap Asian Birch ply. It is a Shaper Origin project, featuring integral "dowels"/tenons in the top/bottom. The "dowels" are relatively large, 1/2" diameter in 18mm thick ply. This would make it very thin/fragile around the holes, in the sides. To counter that, I made the sides slightly longer, moving the mortices in 1/4" from the ends. My plan was to cut the excess off, after the glue was dry. That all sounds fine, until you realize that I left the tenons proud of the surface about 1mm. A spacer, of some sort, is required to get around them. It could be done with a router table, but you would have to secure the spacer in some way. It could be done with an L fence, on a table saw, but you have to take steps to eliminate tear-out. I decided to do it upright, with a spacer, clamped in place. This is a perfect use-case for the extended base for an OF1010 (or OF1400). It provides a lot of stability, when hanging out that far. I used the Shaper for the shelf pin holes too.
 

Attachments

  • Integral dowels.jpg
    Integral dowels.jpg
    333.2 KB · Views: 52
  • Integral dowels ends.jpg
    Integral dowels ends.jpg
    275.3 KB · Views: 47
  • Integral dowel assy.jpg
    Integral dowel assy.jpg
    277.6 KB · Views: 49
  • Integral dowels extended.jpg
    Integral dowels extended.jpg
    182.4 KB · Views: 54
  • Integral dowels shelves.jpg
    Integral dowels shelves.jpg
    336.6 KB · Views: 54
  • OF1010 extended base.jpg
    OF1010 extended base.jpg
    485.4 KB · Views: 55
Thanks. For now, it's in my kitchen, housing my waxes/oils and mixing unit. Eventually to hang on a cleat wall in my home shop.
It takes quite a bit of time to cut the pins, but only a few seconds for the holes. As Russ from Shaper says, Origin is the world's most expensive drill press.
 
Nice...curious how proud you left the "dowels"?
Maybe around .002"-.003"?

I also picked up the plastic extended base for my 1010. I really wanted the original phenolic version 493139, but that's long gone. :)
 
Ah, the joys of a mucked up project that you did on a spare Saturday morning that still looks better than on which I spent three weeks on!

Looks great!
@luvmytoolz It certainly is. Clean, smooth, exactly placed, etc. You can even do fun stuff, like running a tapered bit around the inside and get a conical hole. I have a 4 degree bit, but there are several others 6, 8, 10 for sure. I used it for the inside of the holes on the magnetic flanges that I made for quick change dust collector flanges. It makes much better contact with the tapered tube fitting, not glued, just friction fit. Now I swap between the miter saw and jointer almost instantly. That's something else I did on a Saturday morning, except it was about a year ago.

@onocoffee Come on man, it can't be that bad :oops: Besides, there are huge advantages to working in a large cabinet shop, with virtually everything at my disposal. I just save cut offs, plus I did the hole pattern at home, on the laptop, earlier in the week. I just didn't know when it was going to happen.
(You would be shocked by the pile of stuff I have piled up behind my bench, not even counting more at home. I'm trying to save space at home. I'm still working on the shop and need room to move. Keeping the space as empty as possible, helps with floor and ceiling work.)

@Cheese No, actually they stick out about 1mm. I cut the pins to a depth of .760 and the ply itself is 18mm, which measures .720ish. I knew they were going to be proud enough to "matter", so I ran a bevel bit around the ends, hoping it would not only make assembly easier, but not leaving a square edge. I did the same around the inside of the holes, to also give any extra glue somewhere to go.
 

Attachments

  • Dust coupler hose end.jpg
    Dust coupler hose end.jpg
    153.2 KB · Views: 19
  • Dust coupler jointer.jpg
    Dust coupler jointer.jpg
    248.5 KB · Views: 19
Back
Top